Splice Distribution Cron

[tspurway]

The cron job in Splice 1.X checks for new opportunities to create distributions and uploads them to s3. In Splice 2.X, we need to change the current check from a call to manage.py data deploy_scheduled to an HTTP POST to our distribution API.

The implementation should be a PR against this code:

https://github.com/mozilla-services/puppet-config/blob/master/tiles/modules/splice/manifests/init.pp#L90-L95

NB: this issue also covers removing obsolete manage.py functionality such as the the data command.

[ncloudioj]

The distribution API is,

 $ http POST :5000/api/distributions?channel_id=1&date="2015-11-17"

We can use cURL, HTTPie, or any CLI utility to hit this endpoint. The arguments channel_id and date in the query string are both optional. It'll use the current date by default, and distribute for every channel if not specified. The channel_id could be helpful if it only traffics tiles for a specific channel.

Loop in @relud @mostlygeek

[mostlygeek]

@relud we might want to revisit https://github.com/mozilla-services/puppet-config/pull/1663 since that doesn't include the GET params @ncloudioj mentions above

[relud]

from how @ncloudioj described it, I assumed date could be left out (because it defaults to today), and channel_id should be left out because we want the cron job to deploy all channels.

[tspurway]

This is correct, @relud - you won't need to specify the params.